Nick Brettell

I am a Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington in the School of Mathematics and Statistics (see also my institutional webpage). I am supported by a Marsden Fast-Start grant, administered by the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Previously, I held the following post-doctoral positions:

• at Durham University in the ACiD research group of the Department of Computer Science, working with Daniel Paulusma and Matthew Johnson,
• at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Combinatorial Optimization group of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, working with Rudi Pendavingh,
• at Victoria University of Wellington in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, working with Geoff Whittle,
• at MTA SZTAKI (the Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungarian Academy of Sciences), in the Research Group for Parameterized Algorithms and Complexity, working with Dániel Marx, and
• at ENS Lyon, in the MC2 Team of LIP, working with Nicolas Trotignon.

Prior to this, I completed a Ph.D. in Mathematics at University of Canterbury, under the supervision of Charles Semple.

My main research interests are in matroid theory, graph theory, and algorithms. In particular, I am interested in structure theory, connectivity, minor-closed classes, graph colouring, width parameters, and parameterized complexity.

Office: Cotton building, CO427
Email: nick.brettell{at}vuw.ac.nz